Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
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Cindy Luis covers University of Hawaii volleyball for the Star-Advertiser. She began her career as a sports journalist in Hawaii in 1981 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was the sports editor, assistant sports editor, columnist and beat writer during a 31-year span before the paper became the Star-Advertiser. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.
No. 3 UCSB at No. 9 Hawaii, 7 p.m. HST OC-16, KKEA 1420-am. espn1420am.com gametracker at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74742 BTW, just found out they aren’t televising Sunday’s match. You are welcome to call Oceanic to complain.
>> 5 Wahine volleyball players earned all-Big West academic honors Thursday. To be eligible you have to maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA, have completed one full academic year, have at least sophomore standing and compete in at least 50 percent of the sport’s contests. Honored are Kalei Adolpho, Tayler Higgins, Ginger Long, Tai Manu-Olevao and Nikki Taylor. >> The SandBows added two players Thursday, one for 2015 and one for 2016 Heather Boyan, who just finished her four-year […]
Former UH setter Brian Beckwith will be helping out when he can as Wade said “with the shake up in staff.’ Forgot if it’s been mentioned that Beckwith and former Wahine Juliana Sanders got married over a year ago. Hall’s associate men’s coaching position is being posted on the UH job site. it’s a casual hire, which means it only has to be posted three days. He can promote from within, which means Zarkovic likely moves into Hall’s position. They […]
Texas will be out for the spring game. Tentatively scheduled for March 19. Shoji said he still trying to make the Molokai clinic work.
The announcement will be made sometime Monday that Warriors’ associate coach Jeff Hall will move over to become the Wahine associate coach for indoor and head sand coach. Hall replaced Scott Wong, who took the head indoor job at Pepperdine last month. Some had questioned his credentials when his name came up earlier but he’s got a solid resume. Former AVP player, has been an assistant women’s coach. He did say that his recruiting connections are not as current with […]
Other links for today’s match Livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74741 Audio http://www.espn1420am.com Video http://ocsports.tv
The Challenge System process: 1. Video verification can be requested by the head coach, but it must happen before the game resumes and directly after the play which is a matter of doubt. 2. Both teams have two challenges per set. If the challenge is won it doesn’t decrease the number of challenges a team still has that set. If the challenge is lost, the number of challenges for that team is decreased by one. 3. The first referee has […]
Link for live Stats. Neither team looking that sharp. Ohio State up 20-19 in Set 1. http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74739 UCI trailed until the end, came back to win 26-24 UCI led most of the way in Set 2, win it 25-21. UCI sweeps 25-22.